@rohanpaul_ai: "You could basically imagine, completely neural computers in a certain sense. Imagine a device that takes raw videos or…
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Andrej Karpathy envisions a future where neural networks become the host process of computing, with classical software serving only as deterministic accessories, potentially making many current apps obsolete.
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“You could basically imagine, completely neural computers in a certain sense. Imagine a device that takes raw videos or audio into basically what is a neural net, and uses diffusion to render a UI that is unique for that moment in a certain sense.”
~ Andrej Karpathy
Going by this, the next big software shift may be that much of the software disappears.
Karpathy’s point is not simply that AI will help us build apps faster; it is that many apps may be artifacts of a world where computers needed every intermediate step spelled out.
He says “I kind of feel like, in the early days of computing, people were actually a little bit confused as to whether computers would look like calculators or whether computers would look like neural nets. In the 50s and 60s, it was not really obvious which way it would go. Of course, we went down the calculator path and ended up building classical computing.
Neural nets are currently running virtualized on existing computers, but you could imagine that a lot of this will flip, and that the neural net becomes kind of like the host process, while the CPUs become kind of like the co-processor.“
Classical software treats the CPU as the host process and intelligence as something bolted on through tools, scripts, models, and APIs.
Karpathy is imagining the reverse: the neural network becomes the host process, while conventional code becomes a small deterministic accessory for tasks where exactness still matters.
This is why the future interface may not look like a better app store.
It may look like raw video, audio, documents, or intent entering a neural system, with the interface itself generated for that moment rather than built in advance by a product team.
From “Sequoia Capital” YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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